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Two-time Academy Award nominee® (Two Times!) Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before [...]
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Sang-hyun (played by top Korean star Song Kang-ho, of The Host) is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he [...]
The above is the recently released domestic poster for the animation 9. It’s a bit darker than the Russian poster, and has more of a sci-fi/action vibe to it. I mean, “When our world ended, their mission began”?, what is this, Terminator?
The visual style still shines clearly, but I think some of the whimsy [...]
I just can’t resist this 80’s drenched poster for The Stepfather. Is the whole thing (tagline, premise and image) widely over the top and more than a little ridiculous? Sure! That’s why it’s fun!
The Stepfather is, of course, a remake of a same titled movie from 1987, which had a pretty interesting poster too:
The funny [...]
A screaming woman. A very literal interpretation of the title. Fake looking flames.
Are they trying to piss me off?
The thing is, despite all that, this is actually pretty close to being an ok poster. But some execution details, like the flames, just keep it a little below that.
Anyway, Sam Raimi’s horror posters used to be [...]
Screaming women are a staple of horror posters. I guess there is nothing that conveys fear and helpless terror as well as a poor defenseless lady with an open mouth and closed eyes. Or so the marketers think.
It’s really not something that I particularly appreciate, but I’ve learned to tolerate it. However this one is [...]
There is certain liberty one gets when allowed to cater just to the core audience for a film that can lead to very interesting things. This Wondercom poster for Pandorum is an example. Unencumbered by the necessity of showing the star (Dennis Quaid) or telling the story to a unsuspecting audience it is allowed [...]
(See the continue reading link for the poster, because having it load on the front page was way too distracting)
This “motion poster” was pretty effective when I saw it the first time. Caught me by surprise, grabbed my attention, and made me feel pretty disgusted. Pretty decent combo for a horror movie. And obviously moving [...]
Well, this is about the most boring, most literal poster they could have cooked up for this movie. A scary house on a hill. Yeah, we had never seen anything like that before.
Now, compare it to the grindhouse goodness of the original:
Now, I didn’t actually expect them to go with something like this. This kind [...]
I have to grudgingly admit that I like the poster campaign for the new Friday the 13th.
Sure, it is very heavy on nostalgia. Instead of trying to create something new that was specific to this movie they settled for using images and concepts that the earlier films made famous, only more polished and thus DEAD [...]